Firm Profile

CMG is a landscape architecture firm providing collaborative design and management services to a wide range of public, institutional, and private clients. We maintain that landscape architecture is essentially an 'open field' operating at the nexus of planning, architecture, art and ecological design. At the heart of each of these disciplines is the idea of building community — and that idea is the central focus of our practice. Ultimately, everything we do is predicated on connecting people with each other and with their environments. It is our ambition and our passion to design and build vital and sustainable communities and enduring places.

As a professional practice, we have developed an innovative design approach, which we describe as a form of consilience. By looking beyond the narrow purview of any single discipline, we address the broader ecological, economic, social, and cultural systems and processes intrinsic to every site and project. We combine this broad collaborative view with expertise in physical planning and design.

 

We model the practice on an academic studio design process that emphasizes research and experimentation. Our diverse portfolio of work and active community outreach exemplifies our concern for the public trust and our enduring commitment to our clients' goals.

CMG is a certified Local Business Enterprise (LBE) with the City and County of San Francisco through the Human Rights Commission (HRC). The State of California and The Redevelopment Agency of the City and County of San Francisco has also recognized CMG as a Small Business Enterprise (SBE).